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13 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Howdy there, dear readers. I stumbled upon this in an old box a few days ago and thought it too coincidental not to share, considering that it’s an early draft snippet of what became Well-Behaved Monsters. With some handwritten notes up...
13 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Lord Emberbole was not, by nature, an excessively loquacious spirit. Broad and sturdy as a weather-bated salt-cask, with a greying, tangled beard and knitted top-knot as baroque as the limber lines of his undergalley. His...
6 Feb 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Well, at long last we have a paperback prototype of Well-Behaved Monsters to hold in our hands…and I think it looks really good! As someone who has single-handedly bootstrapped this stuff through the years, the results are a mixed bag to sa...
6 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna gazed for a long while upon the silent space left in Elshad’s wake. The encircling world receded and ceased to be, as she sank into recollections of her mortal family. Above all, was that most acute reminiscence of her...
3 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z54Jtomhb1cEGTfK I travel through time, and this publication allows me to look into the future, when the whole world seems to pacify Russia. The Western leader developed an unfair peace plan, wh...
1 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Lord Emberbole’s undergalley continued its lazy progress through the farther islets of the Archipelago of Koom. Its wide, arabesque belly dragging pearly-crested wavelets across the oily, cimmerian surf. They had, following...
24 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
With a disquieting mingle of emotions both caliginous and bright. Pyna watched the figure leisurely pace - producing a deliberate, echoing ironshod cacophony with each footfall - from out beyond the concealing wall of the Solarium, then slowly aroun...
23 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Hello again! As you probably know by now, my latest work, Well-Behaved Monsters, is coming out April 9. But I’m rewarding the brave and loyal among you with a special Kindle preorder price of 99 cents. Just click the snazzy image above or t...
19 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Two nights passed, then three. Pyna had learned that, as she slumbered deep in undesired convalescence, the Burning Houses and their martinets had laid open the Opal Quarter’s Hall of Stews. That it had been churned into an allagrugous ruin. The plea...
16 Jan 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Okay my friends and neighbors, the print edition of my next book, Well-Behaved Monsters, is now available for preorder! The rest of the world can only get their copy beginning April 9. But as an exclusive to my loyal readers of this newsletter, th...
